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A Tunnel on the Government Road to the Shoshone Dam (see page 223) 



and his band of murderous Apaches. The 

 big chief has been exiled, but his people 

 still live here. Owing to the scarcity of 

 labor, the supervising engineer turned 

 missionary and held a pow-wow with the 

 Indians. Such was his eloquence that 

 several hundred Indians went on the gov- 

 ernment pay-roll. They proved to be 

 good workers and were in no small de- 

 gree responsible for the prompt construc- 

 tion of the Roosevelt road. Later on 

 they were tried on canal work and on 

 concrete mixing, and were not found 

 wanting. While the head of the family 

 toiled for the government, the squaw in 

 her wickiup wove wonderful baskets, 

 which found ready sale in the camps and 

 in Roosevelt. Poor Lo as a worker is 

 no longer a joke. He has discarded the 

 gay-colored robe, the paint and feathers, 

 and in sweat-shop jumper and blue jeans 

 is earning his living by the sweat of his 



brow. What justice could be more poetic 

 than that his arrows and hatchets should 

 be turned into picks and shovels and his 

 labor utilized to bring the precious water 

 to the land which he had so often en- 

 riched with the blood of the white man. 



In 1908 Roosevelt dam will be com- 

 pleted. Its height will be 286 feet. On 

 top it will be 800 feet long. It will cre- 

 ate the largest artificial lake in the world 

 and will furnish 200,000 acres of land 

 with water. The cost of the entire project 

 will be approximately $6,500,000. 



On several of the projects the work has 

 reached the point where the human in- 

 terests involved overshadow* in impor- 

 tance the engineering features. The most 

 intensely interesting period in the work 

 of reclamation is at hand — the landless 

 man has been brought to the manless 

 land. It has been well said that he who 

 helps to establish the security of the 



